This photo was taken of members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in the alert room at the New Castle Army Air Base (NCAAB).
From left to right:
Gertrude Meserve,
Dorothy Fulton,
Betty Gillies,
Nancy Batson,
and Esther Nelson.
This photo was taken of members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in the alert room at the New Castle Army Air Base (NCAAB). From left to right:
Gertrude Tubbs,
Nancy Batson,
Betty Gillies (kneeling),
Teresa James,
Esther…
At the Fairchild plant in Hagerstown, Maryland, the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) assemble to pick up PT-19s to ferry to Air Force bases. Dressed in winter flying gear they are briefed by Control Officer, Captain Frank. Standing next to…
The contestants of the 1966 Powder Puff Derby posing together on stage at a Jack Tar Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. The derby began in Seattle, Washington and ended in Clearwater, Florida, a total of 2875 miles. The contestants flew a Piper Cherokee…
French pilot Anna-Marie Peltier, pictured here with her arms crossed next to a plane, was a F-27 captain for the Air Intern in France. Attached to the photograph is a typed description in French.
French pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard in a flight suit getting into a small plane. She held international records for gliding. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.
Pictured here is the wreckage of Marvel Crosson's plane. Her plane inexplicably failed under suspicious circumstances during her flight from Santa Monica to Cleveland in the 1929 Women's Air Derby. Crosson was just 25 at the time.
Captain Sharyn Emminger and First Officer Karen Squyres flying Short SD-3-30 for Hawaiian Airlines. They were the first all-female crew for US Hawaiian Airlines.
Five Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from the class of 44-W-10 stand with lieutenant Colonel Roy Ward C. O. after their graduation. The women (from left to right) are Dorothy Davis, Juanita Dreier (Hurlbutt), Margaret Eger (Temme), Patricia…
Ann Kenyon, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), is seen talking to her commanding officer in a military cafeteria at Camp Hood, Texas.